Dan Burton

We have had leading scientists from the around world come and testify before my committee who are certain that one of the major causes of autism is the mercury in the vaccination.

That is what is taking place already. There is a spike in inflation already, and people are starting to feel it. When you go to the supermarket and you buy a pound of something that you used to pay for a pound, now they're putting the same…

Well, Mr. Volcker, who is now back with this administration, he came in and started ratcheting up the interest rates to slow down the rate of inflation. Interest went up to 21.5 percent. And I had a business then. And we had to close our…

And when we start having inflation like that, the cost of doing business, the cost of buying products, everything goes up, goes right out the window. Now they're talking about putting trillions of dollars back into this economy, and it's…

We want to get the price of gasoline down and we want to go to new forms of energy. But it is going to take time. And during that time for transition, it is extremely important that we start moving toward energy independence. And a main…

I hope everybody who may be paying attention to this...raising the price of gasoline by taxing these companies is not going to solve the problem.

I just want to follow up the train of thought that you have. These taxes that they want to put on Big Oil, if there are excessive profits made and there is collusion or something like that, if there is criminal behavior, obviously…

Each one of those drilling sites, if they drill and they find oil, it costs up to $2 billion to drill there. And if they're not going to make any money, they're sure not going to do that.

They have twice the amount of oil there that they have in Texas, and I just cannot understand why we're not drilling there.

I wish you'd hold that chart up again that shows how big the ANWR is. I think the American people are under the impression that the ANWR is a huge place. It's the size of--you said Reagan airport, I said Dulles, but airports are airports.

America is a can-do Nation and we need a can-do Congress. And right now, the Congress, and both the House and the Senate, which is controlled by the other party, they have a we-can't-do, we can't do this, we can't do that. As a result…

I wish you would really stress that point and the gentleman from Georgia would stress that point that natural gas 10 years ago was $2.

I guess the point I was trying to make is I know it would take a long time because we are behind the curve, but if the United States got with the program like we should have back in the seventies, we could be almost energy independent…

Our colleague from Ohio was talking about these leases. And the reason they want to drill in ANWR is because geologists found there is a huge supply of oil there. That makes your point. That's where the oil is. As Willy said, that's where…

Before you leave, let me say I think what would be very illuminating for the American people is for you and three or four of your colleagues who have some expertise in this area to come down with three or four of our colleagues and sit…

The problem we have with energy right now is that China is buying an awful lot of the oil, and India is buying a lot of the oil. The appetite for energy is growing at a very rapid rate, even here in the United States, and we're not keeping…

The people that criticize Mickelson probably can't even carry his shoes. He has won two Masters. He is the number two golfer in the world right now. He is tough in every tournament. So when people say something bad about Mickelson, they…

People in this country want their energy prices to go down, and they want them to go down now. You are not doing anything, and a lot of you guys are my friends, but I am going to tell you right now, this is going to be one of the major…

I know Julia Carson, who was a beloved Member of all of us in this body, is looking down from heaven today and is very, very proud of Andre. He was the apple of her eye, her grandson, and if there was one thing she wanted, she wanted him…

I was looking at the picture of Mr. Kashkoush, and all I can say is he exemplifies the thousands of young men and women who have gone to serve their country in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in the world. And we just can't say enough…

For 4 years, they did exactly what they're accusing this administration of doing, and they did it in spades. When people wouldn't testify, they stuck up for them. When people took the fifth amendment, they stuck up for them. When people…

I haven't heard anybody over there say anything good about the President, who is trying to protect us against terrorism around the world, which is emanating from the Middle East and al Qaeda. Al Qaeda are the ones that are running the…

Let me just say that appeasement and weakness led to World War II, and 62 million people died. We are now in the nuclear age, and we have an enemy that will tie a nuclear weapon or plastic explosives around themselves and blow themselves…

I was just informed by my good friend, Mr. Visclosky, that one of our former colleagues, Jim Jontz, died last Saturday. He was a Member of the other party, but he was a very fine man. He had been a State senator and a leader in Indiana for…